All the Bills We Are Tracking
2021-2022 Session

Extends the tenant protection provisions on AB 3088 through the end of 2021 and makes some changes, including banning late fees on unpaid rent, limiting collection actions to small claims court, allowing tenants to specificy how to apply rent payments, and prohbiting landlords from adding language to the declaration form tenants must submit in order to be protected.

Landlord-Tenant

Placeholder bill for long-term solution to unpaid COVID rent.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 49
(Petrie-Norris)

Eliminates CDLAC and transfers the duties to TCAC.

Housing Finance

Spot bill to implement recommendations from the Auditor's report related to affordable housing.

Housing Finance

AB 71
(Luz Rivas)

Creates the Bring California Home fund to provide resources to address homelessness, to be funded by changes in tax policy.

Re-run of AB 3107 from last year making housing with 20% lower-income units an allowable use in commercial zones.

Adds SB 330 to the list of laws HCD can enforce under AB 72.

Housing Finance

AB 244
(Blanca Rubio)

Requires TCAC, HCD, CalHFA, and CDLAC to complete an affordable housing cost study by 2028.

Housing Finance

AB 258
(Villapuda)

Requires EHAP grantees to allow people to have at least one pet in emergency shelters and transitional housing.

Creates the Reentry Housing Program at HCD to provide grants to cities, counties, and continuums of care for housing interventions to allow people with recent histories of incarceration to exit homelessness and remain stably housed. The program would be funded from the savings created by the upcoming closure of several state prisons.

AB 345
(Quirk-Silva)

Requires cities and counties to allow accessory dwelling units built by non-profits and deed restricted as affordable to be sold separately from the primary residence on the property. Currently cities and counties are allowed to do this but are not required

AB 348
(Villapuda)

Requires HCD to develop an annual summary report by March 15 every year that discloses the amount of state, federal, and private funding spent on the development of affordable housing within the state, each city, and each county in the preceding calendar year

Housing Finance

AB 357
(Kamlager)

Spot bill related to affordable housing production.

AB 374
(Seyarto)

Requires HCD's annual report to include an evaluation of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention (HHAP) program.

Spot bill to establish the California Housing Authority for the purpose of developing mixed-income rental and limited equity homeownership housing and mixed-use developments to address the shortage of affordable homes for low and moderate-income households.

Housing Finance

Places a measure on the 2022 ballot authorizing the issuance of $600 million in bonds for the Veterans Housing and Homelessness Prevention (VHHP) program.

Housing Finance

Provides for ongoing funding and additional programs to help transitional-age foster youth to avoid homelessness.

Requires the Office of the Treasurer to work with CalHFA and HCD to create a financing product to assist homeowners in the creation of ADUs

Housing Finance

AB 602
(Grayson)

Spot bill related to residential development impact fees.

Housing Finance

AB 617
(Davies)

Allows jurisdictions the option of paying other jurisdictions to transfer all or a portion of their RHNA.

AB 672
(C. Garcia)

Spot bill related to using underutilized golf courses for affordable housing.

AB 678
(Grayson)

Spot bill related to residential development impact fees.

Housing Finance

Requires cities to allow cohousing projects in areas zoned for multifamily residential.

Makes recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, or limits on the use of land that restrict the number or size of the residences that may be built on a property, or that restrict the number of people may reside on the property, unenforceable against the owner of an affordable housing development.

Spot bill related to building standards.

Codes and Standards

AB 787
(Gabriel)

Spot bill related to housing elements.

AB 795
(Patterson)

Adds additional requirements to HCD's annual reporting requirements and requires the department to do on-site visits for CalHome recipients.

Requires the creation of a statewide plan for addressing homelessness and allows for legal action against jurisdictions who do not make progress towards meeting the plan’s goals.

Transfers all land use related plans and functions of the former City of Los Angeles redevelopment agency to the City of Los Angeles and makes related changes.

Creates a tax credit for property owners renting to tenants receiving housing assistance.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 838
(Friedman)

Requires cities and counties to follow up on complaints from tenants about substandard buildings and potential lead hazards.

Codes and Standards

Spot bill in the Ellis Act.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 861
(Bennet)

Prohbits park management from renting or sublieashing a mobilhome if the park rules prohibit renting or subleasing.

AB 874
(Quirk-Silva)

Spot bill related to the PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) progrm.

AB 880
(Aguiar-Curry)

Creates the Affordable Disaster Housing Revolving Development and Acquisition Program to provide funding to CDFIs to fund affordable housing production, preservation, and rehabilitation in the wake of natural disasters.

Housing Finance

Increases from 16 to 20 feet the maximum height limiatation a city or county can impose on a detached ADU.

AB 919
(Grayson)

Reduces the statute of limitations for construction defects from 10 to 5 years for projects that use a skilled and trained workforce.

AB 922
(E. Garcia)

Spot bill in Housing Authority law.

Spot bill in the Community Redevelopment law.

Eliminates the mortgage interest deduction on vacation properties.

Housing Finance

Authorizes Caltrans to sell its excess property to cities and counties for affordable housing and exempts these transfers from CEQA.

Housing Finance

AB 977
(Gabriel)

Requires the reporting of health information to the state Homeless Management Information System, subject to certain privacy requirements, by various grantees.

AB 978
(Quirk-Silva)

Extends AB 1492's limatations on rent increases to mobilehomes.

Spot bill in Housing Element law.

AB 1016
(Rivas)

Spot bill in the Planning and Zoning law.

AB 1029
(Mullin)

Adds preservation of affordable housing through the extenstion of project-based rental assistance to the list of policies that HCD may consider as "prohousing policies."

AB 1043
(L. Rivas)

Creates a "deeply low income" designation for households at or below 15% of AMI.

Requires mobilehome park owners who mastermeter water service to charge the same water rate to residents as they would pay if they were revieiving service directly from the water utility provider.

AB 1068
(Santiago)

Requires HCD to create a model plan for the use of alternative forms of developing affordable housing for the purpose of substantially reducing the cost of a unit, including adaptive reuse of existing buildings, modular housing, and cross-subsidization that results in at least 50 percent of all units being affordable to persons who are extremely low and very low income.

Housing Finance

AB 1075
(Wicks)

Spot bill in Housing Element law.

AB 1090
(Quirk-Silva)

Creates the Legislative Task Force on the California Masterplan on Homeownership to make recommendations on removing policy and regulatory barriers to homeownership.

AB 1095
(Cooley)

Requires SGC to treat rental and ownership housing equally in the AHSC program.

AB 1111
(Berman)

Requires that in making recommendations for changes to the 7th RHNA cycle methodology, HCD promote and streamling the development of houisng for low-icnome community college students.

AB 1135
(Grayson)

Spot bill in ADU law.

AB 1143
(Berman)

Allows local governments to have a policy giving preference to lower-income households at risk of displacement in tax-credit funded affordable housing.

AB 1174
(Grayson)

Makes technical changes to SB 35 to update cross-references.

AB 1188
(Wicks)

Requires cities to create and maintain a rental registry by 2021 covering all landlords who own or operate five or more units.

Landlord-Tenant

AB 1199
(Gipson)

Imposes an excise tax on landlords who rent 10 or more units, to be used to fund a variety of activities to benefit low-income renters.

Housing Finance

AB 1206
(Berman)

Allows certain limited equity cooperatives to access the welfare exemption.

Housing Finance

AB 1220
(L. Rivas)

Spot bill in Density Bonus law.

AB 1258
(Nguyen)

Subjects RHNA allocation plans to judicial review.

AB 1277
(Rubio)

Creates an expedited judicial review process for CEQA for student housing projects.

AB 1304
(Santiago)

Makes changes to AB 686 related to the AFFH analysis in Housing Element law.

AB 1322
(Bonta)

Prohibits charter cities from enforcing single-family zoning provisions in their charters if more than 90% of the residentially zoned landed in the jurisdiction is for single-family housing.

Spot bill related to housing trust funds.

Housing Finance

AB 1358
(Bonta)

Spot bill related to Housing First.

AB 1360
(Santiago)

Spot bill related to homelessness.

AB 1370
(Quirk-Silva)

Spot bill related to affordable housing devleopment.

AB 1372
(Muratsuchi)

Requires cities and counties to provide temporary shelter to people experiencing homelessness.

AB 1377
(McCarty)

Creates a revolving loan fund to assist UC, CSU, and community colleges in producing affordable student housing.

Housing Finance

AB 1398
(Bloom)

Spot bill in Housing Element law.

AB 1401
(Friedman)

Prohibits cities and counties from imposing parking minimum withing 1/2 mile of transit or in a low VMT area as determined by OPR.

Allows MHP funds to be used for construction financing or permanent financing.

Housing Finance

Spot bill in ADU law.

AB 1445
(Levine)

Requires COGs to take climate change impacts into effect in allocating the RHNA.

AB 1449
(Wicks)

Spot bill related to housing.

Requires HCD to have a progress payment option for grantees.

AB 1486
(Carillo)

Spot bill in the Housing Accountability Act.

AB 1492
(Bloom)

Requires HCD to map high-opportunity areas.

AB 1501
(Santiago)

Spot bill related to housing.

AB 1515
(Santiago)

Spot bill related to affordable housing authorities.

AB 1516
(Gabriel)

Creates a 50% state tax credit (up to $1 million per transaction) against both state and federal capital gains otherwise owed by the seller of an existing building or mobilehome park if they sell to a nonprofit entity which will operate the property as affordable housing for low-income households for 55 years

ACA 1
(Aguiar-Curry)

Lowers the voter threshold to 55% for local bonds to fund affordable housing and infrastructure.

Housing Finance

ACA 1
(Aguiar-Curry)

Lowers the voter threshold to 55% for local bonds to fund affordable housing and infrastructure.

Housing Finance

SB 3
(Caballero)

Extends the provisions of AB 3088 through March 2021.

Landlord-Tenant

Would put a housing bond on the 2022 ballot.

Housing Finance

SB 6
(Caballero)

Re-run of SB 1385 from last year to allow housing on commercial sites. Includes an inclusionary requirement (this is a change from last year) and a skilled and trained workforce requirement.

Re-run of SB 995 from last year to allow infill housing projects with 15% affordable units to qualify for the AB 900 expediited CEQA process.

Spot bill in Density Bonus Law (probably something aournd moderate-income units again)

Re-run of SB 1120 from last year to make duplexes and lots splits ministerial

Re-run of SB 902 from last year to allow local governments to rezone a parcel by right to allow up to 10 units on the parcel in infill or jobs-rich areas.

SB 15
(Portantino)

Re-run of SB 1399 from last year to give local governments grants if they rezone underutilzed big box or commercial sites to allow lower- and moderate-income housing by right and a project gets built that also emplyed a skilled and trained workforce.

Establishes new processes and procedures for the disposal of Caltrans-owned homes along the former 710 freeway extension in the City of Los Angeles

Prohbits development in very high fire hazard severity zones.

Provides evictions protections for COVID-impacted residents in mobilehome parks during the pandemic.

SB 234
(Wiener)

Creates the Tranisiton Aged Youth Housing Program to create housing for youth under 26 who are experiencing homelessness.

SB 290
(Skinner)

Re-do of last year’s SB 1385. Makes a number of modifications to Density Bonus law, including adding one concession for student housing projects and allowing the use of the moderate-income density bonus in all for-sale developments rather than just in common-interest developments.

SB 477
(Wiener)

Makes changes to housing element annual report requirements.

SB 478
(Wiener)

Prohibits cities and counties from imposing certain minimum lot size standards.

SB 490
(Caballero)

Creates the Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Technical Assistance program at HCD.

Housing Finance

Spot bill related to the Emergency Housing and Assistance program.

SB 621
(Eggman)

Makes hotel and motel conversions to housing a use by right if the project includes an unspecified number of affordable units.

SB 625
(Caballero)

Creates a state CDFI fund to provide grants and loans to CDFIs for a variety of activities in low-income communities.

SB 649
(Cortese)

Allows local governments to have a policy giving preference to lower-income households at risk of displacement in tax-credit funded affordable housing.

Spot bill related to the Surplus Lands Act.

SB 728
(Hertzberg)

Prohibits state and local housing and incentive programs from excluding homeownership opportunities for low-income households.

SB 743
(Bradford)

Creates a grant program at HCD to fund broadband, digital literacy, and computer equipment in affordable housing.

Allows in applicant for an ADU to request alternative rear and side yard setbacks based on topographical conditions if the existing local setback requirements would make an ADU infeasible.

SB 791
(Cortese)

Spot bill related to zoning.

Spot bill related to regional housing trust funds.

Housing Finance

Would place the repeal of Article 34 on a future ballot.